Paul DesJardin

PhD

Paul DesJardin.

Paul DesJardin

PhD

Paul DesJardin

PhD

Research Interests

Multiphase reacting flows; propulsion; fire and combustion; computational fluid dynamics; fluid- structure simulation

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Selected Publications

  • Aphale, S.S. and DesJardin, P.E., “Two-Color Pyrometry Based Flame to Fuel Surface Radiative Heat Flux Diagnostic using Flamelets,” Combustion and Flame, (accepted), (2021).
  • Budzinski, K.L., Aphale, S. S., Katz-Ismael, E., Surina, G. and DesJardin, P.E., “Radiation Heat Transfer in Ablating Boundary Layer Combustion Theory used for Hybrid Rocket Motor Analysis,” Combustion and Flame, 217, pp. 248-261, (2020).
  • Weisberger, J.M., Richter, J.P.,  Mollendorf, J.C., DesJardin, P.E., “An Emissions-Based Fuel Mass Loss Measurement. For Wood-Fired Hydronic Heaters,” Biomass and Bioenergy, 142, (2020).
  • Aphale, S.S. and DesJardin, P.E., “Development of a non-intrusive radiative heat flux measurement for upward flame spread using DSLR camera based two-color pyrometry,” Combustion and Flame, 210, pp. 262-278, (2019)
  • Richter, J.P., Weisberger, J.M., Bojko, B. T., Mollendorf, J.C., DesJardin, P.E., “Numerical Modeling of Homogeneous Gas and Heterogeneous Char Combustion for a Wood-Fired Hydronic Heater,” Renewable Energy, 131, pp. 890-899, (2019).
  • Weisberger, J.M., Richter, J.P., DesJardin, P.E., “Direct Absorption Spectroscopy Baseline Fitting for Blended Features,” Applied Optics, 57, pp. 9086-9095 (2018).
  • Bojko, B. T. and DesJardin, P.E., “On the development and application of a droplet flamelet-generated manifold for use in two-phase turbulent combustion simulations,” Combustion and Flame, 183, pp. 50-65 (2017).
  • Richter, J.P., Weisberger, J.M., Mollendorf, J.C., DesJardin, P.E., “Emissions from a domestic two-stage wood-fired hydronic heater: effects of non-homogeneous fuel decomposition,” (in press) Renewable Energy, (2017).
  • DesJardin, P.E., Bojko, B.T. and McGurn, M.T., “Initialization of High-Order Accuracy Immersed Interface Based CFD Solver using Complex CAD Geometry,” J. Num. Methods Eng., 109(4), pp. 487-513 (2017).
  • Richter, J.P., Mollendorf, J.C. and DesJardin, P.E., “Absolute and Relative Emissions Analysis in Practical Combustion Systems – Effect of Water Vapor Condensation,” Measurement Science and Technology, 27(11), pp. 117002 (2016).
  • Bojko, B.T. and DesJardin, P.E., “Formulation and Assessment of Flamelet-Generated Manifolds for Reacting Interfaces,” Combustion and Flame, 173, pp. 296-306 (2016).
  • Richter, J. P., Bojko, B. T., Mollendorf, J. C. and DesJardin, P.E., “Characterization of Fuel Burn Rate, Emissions and Thermal Efficiency of a Two-Stage Wood-Fired Hydronic Heater,” Renewable Energy, 96, pp. 400-409 (2016).
  • Weisberger, J. M., DesJardin, P.E., MacLean, M., Parker, R. and Carr, Z., “Near-Surface CO2 Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Concentration Measurements in the LENS-XX Expansion Tunnel Facility,” J. of Spacecraft and Rockets, 52(6), pp. 1551-1562 (2015).
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